358 CXLIIT, CYPERACER. [Schaenus. 
margins owering ones beau: bbt 4 preven ones dat gradually 
shorter ey acuminate. Hypogynous bristles 6, longer than the nut, 
plumose with long hairs. Stamens 3. Nut ovoid, obtuse, but not seen 
ripe.— shoes CR R. Br. Prod. 232; Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 84; 
F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 37. 
W. Australia. Mig George's Sound, R. Brown ; Swan River, Drummond, lst 
coll., Preiss, n. 1792, 
Series TI. SPuxRocEPHALX.—-Spikelets 1 to 3 lines long, very 
numerous and sessile in a globular or broadly turbinate he ad, with 
spreading subulate involucral bracts. ypogynous bristles rarely 
deficient. Leaves tufted at the base of the stem 
ifolius, Benth—-Stems AES — rarely —— 
by a hyaline membrane.  Flower-head globular, 4 to 6 lines diameter. 
Involueral braets ovate or ovate-lanceol te, bordered by a hyaline 
ay emt King Gé s Sound, R. Brown, Oldfield, Maxwell, F. Mueller 
and thence to Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll. and n. 899, Preiss, n. 1778, 177 7 and 
ds 
— us lamine very short. Flower-heads. globular, about 3 
" ucral bracts few, ae tty , incurved or flexuose, dts 
numerous, um ut 3 lines long, with usually 3 flowers. Empty 
glumes 5 or 6 or even more, t t from 
Fragm. ix. 37, not of R. Br. ; Elynanthus capitatu’, 
ia in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1. Ue 48? from the character given. 
Drom dei Da F. Mueller ; Forest Hill, Muir ; Swan River: 
Stem above 1 ft. and often flattened Yoda rigid, without 
